UNIT 17 PRACTICE ACTIVITIES AND TASKS FOR LANGUAGE AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

PRACTICE ACTIVITIES AND TASKS FOR LANGUAGE AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

Activities beyond the book are useful for students because they will reinforce what they have learned with exercises, tasks in order to use their language and produce new vocabulary through the subskills of the main ones. Teacehrs shouls start with controlled activities and little by little let students to produce free the language. Where controlled activities will help to practice on accuracy and form, like in choral, individual, substitutions and transformation drills. Inthe ither hand we have free activities that let students to have different interaction patterns such as dialogues, role-plays, interviews. So teachers have  to use a lot of tasks and activities to have a practice time in students instead of be so bored with the book.  

In the following link you will have the difference in controlled, semi-controlled and free activities:

User, S. (2014). Heads Up English | ESL Lessons - Controlled to Free Activities.Headsupenglish.com. Retrieved 6 December 2014, from http://www.headsupenglish.com/index.php/esl-articles/esl-lesson-structure/310-controlled-to-free-activities

Slideshare.net,. (2014). Intermediate German Blending Project. Retrieved 6 December 2014, from http://www.slideshare.net/kraemera/intermediate-german-blending-project